libmediaart required for Tracker

2014-02-07 Thread Martyn Russell
Hello all, Just wanted to give people a heads up here. Yesterday I merged a branch I've been working on (use-libmediaart¹) into Tracker's master branch. It now means libmediaart is required to build Tracker. For those unaware, libmediaart² is simply a collection of source files that were

Re: libmediaart required for Tracker

2014-02-07 Thread Daniel Mustieles García
Hi Martyn, Browsing the source code of this new library, I've seen there are several strings, but no one has been marked as translatable. Should them be translated or you want to keep them as they are? If those strings are shown to the user (i.e. in the GUI) they should be translatable, and the

Re: libmediaart required for Tracker

2014-02-07 Thread Bastien Nocera
Hey Martyn, On Fri, 2014-02-07 at 12:13 +, Martyn Russell wrote: Hello all, Just wanted to give people a heads up here. Yesterday I merged a branch I've been working on (use-libmediaart¹) into Tracker's master branch. It now means libmediaart is required to build Tracker. For

Re: libmediaart required for Tracker

2014-02-07 Thread Martyn Russell
On 07/02/14 12:48, Daniel Mustieles García wrote: Hi Martyn, Hello Daniel, Browsing the source code of this new library, I've seen there are several strings, but no one has been marked as translatable. Should them be translated or you want to keep them as they are? I don't think there are

Re: libmediaart required for Tracker

2014-02-07 Thread Martyn Russell
On 07/02/14 13:56, Bastien Nocera wrote: Hey Martyn, Hello Bastien, On Fri, 2014-02-07 at 12:13 +, Martyn Russell wrote: Well, for one, I'd like to understand what it does ;) :) How is this different from using thumbnails to store a file's cover art? Ultimately media art can be

Re: libmediaart required for Tracker

2014-02-07 Thread Daniel Mustieles García
Right for me. Thanks for the info! 2014-02-07 Martyn Russell mar...@lanedo.com: On 07/02/14 12:48, Daniel Mustieles García wrote: Hi Martyn, Hello Daniel, Browsing the source code of this new library, I've seen there are several strings, but no one has been marked as translatable.

Re: libmediaart required for Tracker

2014-02-07 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 7:13 AM, Martyn Russell mar...@lanedo.com wrote: Hello all, Just wanted to give people a heads up here. Yesterday I merged a branch I've been working on (use-libmediaart¹) into Tracker's master branch. It now means libmediaart is required to build Tracker. For

Development Question

2014-02-07 Thread CS DBA
Hi All; It seems to me that the marriage that Microsoft Apple enjoy per hardware designed for their software gives them a huge advantage. I see that the Linux community is quite good at coming up with drivers, software, etc for hardware after the fact. I wonder, what could be accomplished

Re: Development Question

2014-02-07 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 5:23 PM, CS DBA cs_...@consistentstate.com wrote: Hi All; It seems to me that the marriage that Microsoft Apple enjoy per hardware designed for their software gives them a huge advantage. I see that the Linux community is quite good at coming up with drivers, software,

Re: libmediaart required for Tracker

2014-02-07 Thread Jens Georg
I'm a little concerned that we seem to be growing a qt dependency here That's the same optional! Qt dependency that tracker has grown since the Harmattan days. ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org

Re: libmediaart required for Tracker

2014-02-07 Thread Jens Georg
I am unfamiliar with the innards of Grilo so, I can't say if it competes or duplicates efforts there. Not really. I'd say Grilo could use it for populating the media art cache using its last.fm or tmbd plugins to make those available to other consumers or use it in it's local metadata